Distinguished Professors Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh Sitaraman of the Manning College of Information and Computer Sciences (CICS) have recently been named fellows of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), an academic collaborative organization that promotes AI development and industry.

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Incorporated in Hong Kong in 2021, the AAIA is a nonprofit organization that aims to enhance the development and application of artificial intelligence by bringing together scientists around the world through academic research, academic exchanges, science education, science exhibitions, academic conferences, academic publications and other activities.  Shenoy and Sitaraman will join other AAIA fellows from higher education institutions in the U.S., including MIT, Princeton University and California Institute of Technology and other universities worldwide.

Shenoy, the associate dean of computing and facilities in CICS, is known for his work on the automatic scaling of web services under heavy loads, as well as his work to decarbonize distributed systems and physical infrastructure through computational approaches.

Shenoy’s research focuses broadly on distributed systems and networking with current projects in cloud computing, green computing, and energy informatics. He directs the Center for Smart and Connected Society and the Laboratory for Advanced and Software and is the former director of the Center for Personalized Health Monitoring. He is the founder and co-chair of ACM SIGEnergy, a professional group focusing on energy informatics and computational sustainability.

“Our research sits at the intersection of computing systems and AI with the goal of improving efficiency,” says Shenoy. “For example, our work has examined how to make AI workloads in the cloud more sustainable and how to make edge AI more adaptive and resource efficient.”

Sitaraman is the associate dean for educational programs and teaching at CICS. He is best known for pioneering content delivery networks (CDNs) and edge computing services that currently deliver much of the world’s web, videos, edge applications and online services. As a principal architect, he helped create the Akamai network, the world’s first major content delivery network (CDN) and edge computing service. He retains a part-time role as Akamai’s chief consulting scientist.

Sitaraman’s research spans all aspects of internet-scale distributed systems, including algorithms, architectures, performance and energy efficiency. Recently, his research has focused on intelligent systems that learn and adapt to the ever-changing environments in which they operate.

“AI has become an indispensable tool for building intelligent systems that can automatically tune themselves to achieve optimal performance without human intervention,” says Sitaraman. “For instance, we have recently developed a cache management system that automatically learns the optimal caching policy for its specific user access pattern and its mix of content types.”

Visit the CICS website to read more about Shenoy and Sitaraman’s credentials and appointment, and for more on the association and a complete list of fellows can be found on the AAIA website.